Comments on: How to stop Ubuntu from asking for your sudo password

By: Ubuntu won’t ask for your sudo password anymore

Ubuntu won’t ask for your sudo password anymore — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:57:31 +0000

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By: nanohead

nanohead — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:13:36 +0000

Its good to have this info out there. I do lots of admin tasks and some development on Ubuntu and this thing makes me crazy.

Also, I guess you all watch to much 24 or something. The totally overblown computer security crazies have convinced otherwise sane people that there is some kind of a threat without 100s of security processes on their personal computers.

By: Ubuntu won’t ask for your sudo password anymore - Karol Zielinski’s Blog

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:45:53 +0000

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By: Ross McKillop

Ross McKillop — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:58:00 +0000

To those who question the wisdom of this -

You’re absolutely right, under some circumstances.

I ran Slackware (and only Slackware) from ‘94 to ‘99. I ALWAYS had a root terminal open, usually several. I would blindly issue commands not being aware of which terminal I was in. Smart? Maybe not. But not once did I do anything harmful to the system by mistake etc.

Not everyone should follow the steps in this tutorial and disable the sudo password. But for those that want to know how, the info is provided.

As Sukrit mentioned, this isn’t something you’d want to do on a computer at work or anywhere that other people can use it. But for a home desktop behind a firewall, for someone who knows what they’re doing, it can be very useful and time saving.

By: gyffes

gyffes — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:48:08 +0000

While there’s no way this is as dangerous as running Windows unpatched and without a latex suit, I gotta concur with the others: this seems a silly thing to be compromising. Especially since, as LL noted, above, Sudo already is a bit weak, security-wise. I understand the idea of having no Root account enabled for to be stumbled ‘pon, but if someone is far enough into my system that they’re typing terminal commands, aren’t they likely to have my sudo pwd?

Anyway, it’s not like sudo blah blah is so hard to type. Further, I’ve noticed that the system doesn’t ask for the password again if the sudo commands are issued close enough together (say, sudo apt-get update [lots of processing....] sudo apt-get upgrade… [ditto...] whatever next.

By: Mihc

Mihc — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:02:10 +0000

You might as well run windows

By: LinuxLover

LinuxLover — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:10:03 +0000

This is about as boneheaded as running Vista with no security software at all. Why on Earth would you want to do this?

Personally, I’m not a fan of Sudo, because using ones own user password just isn’t secure, IMO. I just use a different distro that doesn’t use Sudo by default.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:28:24 +0000

Talk about circumventing security!
Why not just run:

sudo su

in a terminal and do your root command tasks there. That way:
1) You don’t have to sudo each command.
2) You only enter your password once.